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The latest guides on employing and managing full or part time staff effectively as a small business owner or sole trader, brought to you in partnership with Sage. Contains advice on employment law, health and safety at work, recruitment, training, redundancy and disciplinary information, employee rights, workplace regulations, and much more.

This section provides expert and in-depth advice articles on all aspects of staff management and human resources legislation. Our aim is to help UK small businesses to hire great employees, manage them effectively and look after them properly.

Other key topics covered in this employing staff section include team management, employee motivation, legal rights and responsibilities, managing absence, maternity pay and leave, taking on new staff, induction programmes, communication, workplace policies, flexible working, job descriptions, employment contracts and related information.

We also provide information on HR tools, templates and resources specially targeted at SMEs as well as suitable training courses and workshops that can help you get the best out of your staff to make a more efficient, more profitable, happy and productive company.

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Can I reduce staff hours?

Can you unilaterally reduce staff hours worked across the board? Or do you have to do it individually as a percentage of hours worked?

Employing & managing staff

Employing & managing staff

Simple tips for creating a fun and positive company culture in your SMB

Here are five tips to help you create a positive company culture for your business and employees

Employing & managing staff

Can I send an employee home if they have Covid?

What do I do if a staff member has Covid symptoms? Can I send them home to stop them infecting other staff? How much should I pay them to self-isolate? Claire Williams from CIPHR offers advice

Employing & managing staff

Do existing staff have to stay on after a sale?

If a company is sold, do new owners have to employ the existing staff on the same terms as their original contract?

Employing & managing staff

Can I make a deduction from an employee’s salary?

What can you do if an employee leaves without returning valuable IT equipment, a uniform or a mobile phone? Karen Watkins of Rowan Consulting offers advice.

Employing & managing staff

Businesses must pay for digital ID checking from April

Businesses will have to license software to onboard employees remotely from April as Home Office outsources digital ID checking

Employing & managing staff

Holiday entitlement for staff

Alison King outlines what small companies need to know about holiday legislation

Employing & managing staff

How can employers achieve everyday wins in their people communications?

The Access Group explain how to use positive language to score everyday wins with your employees and your business

Employing & managing staff

Holiday entitlement for staff

Alison King outlines what small companies need to know about holiday legislation

Employing & managing staff

How can employers achieve everyday wins in their people communications?

The Access Group explain how to use positive language to score everyday wins with your employees and your business

Employing & managing staff

HR for start-ups – how to get it right

Alison King outlines the key human resources considerations for small business owners starting up

Employing & managing staff

Employee wants to convert SSP to annual leave

What if an employee wants to convert some of their paid time of work with statutory sick pay into fully paid leave? Alison King shows you options

Employing & managing staff

Varying employee contracts: the law

Alison King looks at the legal position when it comes to varying employees’ contracts and what keys steps need to be taken

Employing & managing staff

Redundancy letter

Nobody likes writing or receiving redundancy letters. Yet they are useful for recapping facts when a staff member is too upset to listen to what you are saying, says Sue Tumelty

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